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Football: Mahomes leads Kansas City to triumph in Super Bowl LIV – Football – More Sport

The 31:20 (7: 3, 3: 7, 0:10, 21: 0) for the chiefs was not adequately reproduced by the drama at the end of the game. Until shortly before the end, everything was still open on Sunday (02.02.2020 / local time); the 49ers had started the last quarter with a ten-point lead. Mahomes seemed nervous on the ground, but with the courage of despair he ended up turning the game.

His opponent Jimmy Garoppolo played an outstanding game for a long time, but nothing came of him in the decisive phase. The dream of the German in the final also remained unfulfilled: 49ers-Special-Teamer Mark Nzeocha saw Kansas City regain the title after half a century.

Mahomes runs himself, Garoppolo with a false start

From the beginning: The 49ers had taken care of the first points of the game. Kicker Robbie Gould converted from 38 at 8:02 minutes in the first quarter Yards Removal per Fieldgoal for the 3-0 lead. Both lines of defense dominated the first quarter, but 31 seconds before the end was the first Touchdown Matter for the boss: Chiefs-Quarterback Mahomes faked a pass just before the opposing end zone, fooled two defenders and finally ran the egg over the line: 7: 3 for Kansas City after Kicker Harrison Butker the PAT (Point after Touchdown) had transformed.

Mahomes’ counterpart initially came much worse. Trying to catch up with the deficit 49ers-Quarterback Garoppolo the ball under pressure in the arms of Chiefs defender Bashaud Breeland – the first Interception brought in the evening Kansas City again in possession of the ball. Harrison Butker then put per Field Goal out of 31 yards the 10: 3 after.

Balance before half time

But Garoppolo was slowly getting going. Again and again he changed his play stations, so that it was the Chiefs-Defense had a hard time adjusting to his game. Shortly before half-time, he had distributed nine incoming passports to six different recipients. This also resulted in the equalization: Apparently nobody expected Kyle Juszczyk – Touchdown plus an extra point from Gould at 10:10, five minutes and five seconds were still on the clock.

And now Garoppolo was really hot. A few seconds before the end of the second quarter he threw Quarterback an outstanding pass to George Kittle just before the end zone – it would have been a great chance to even take a break with a tour. But the Referees opposed it and threw the yellow flag because Kittle allegedly held a defender a little too intensely before his spectacular catch – a highly controversial one Call.

Mark Nzeocha asked right away

At the beginning of the third quarter, the German Mark Nzeocha was challenged. in the Kick-off-Return-Team of the 49ers, he helped ensure that the Chiefs had to start their first attempt at attack from far behind – behind their own 20-yard line. At the end of the drive there was only one Field Goal from San Francisco, which Gould converted from 42 yards to 13:10.

Now the momentum tipped to the 49ers. Mahomes, throughout Playoffs had not thrown an interception, this dropout of all times allowed itself in Super Bowl: He wanted to force it too much, maybe because he had previously lost the ball but brought it back himself – and threw it directly into Fred Warner’s arms.

Ten points ahead for the first time

San Francisco promptly took advantage of the resulting field advantage: Garappolo, which was now operating excellently (at that time was 17 complete out of 20 passes, twelve of which were in series), was initially looking for Juszczyk, who was stopped one yard before the end zone. Raheem Mostert per Touchdown (plus PAT from Gould) finished at 20:10 – for the first time a team was ahead with ten points.

Mahomes was challenged – and failed again under the constant pressure of the outstanding 49ers defense. Three minutes were played in the final quarter when he, again poorly protected by his O-Line, made a pass in the back of his teammate Tyreek Hill threw. Tarvarius Moore the egg snapped to the next Interception – and the Niners cheered and posed for the photographers as if they had already won the title.

But again the turn

But Mahomes fought, tried everything and came back again: With a very long pass over 50 yards in the arms of Hill, he gave the chance for a touchdown, and 6:13 minutes before the end, Mahomes’ pass to Travis Kelce, including the extra point, did that 17:20 – suddenly there was high tension again!

The thriller took its course: the 49ers remained pointless in their next drive, the Chiefs got the ball back a good five minutes before the end. And managed the next touchdown because Mahomes made up for everything: dream pass on Sammy Watkins shortly before the end zone, then the decisive pass to Damien Williams – suddenly the Chiefs led again with 24:20 2:44 minutes before the end. The 49ers did not recover from this – on the contrary: 1:12 before the end, the Chiefs even set it to 31:20 after the next touchdown by Williams.

Mahomes becomes MVP

Mahomes was then overwhelmed: “It is such an honor to play for a team that never gives up. That is what makes us special.” Then he received the trophy for the Most Valuable Player (MVP) presented. The US President, of all people, was embarrassed when he congratulated him.

Donald Trump showed geographical weaknesses in his message to the new Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. “You represented the state of Kansas great”Trump wrote on Twitter shortly after the Chiefs’ final victory. Kansas City is in Missouri. The president quickly deleted the tweet and sent a corrected version, but by then it was too late. The original message had long been circulating on the Internet.

Theme in: Current sport, Deutschlandfunk, Monday, 03.02.20, 10:50 p.m.


Stand: 03.02.2020, 04:29

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